Shahid Kapoor is one of the most versatile actors of his generation in Bollywood. From romantic, to thriller, pyscho and action, Shahid has nailed almost all genres with his phenomenal acting chops. Son of talented actor parents, Pankaj Kapur and Neeliima Azeem, Shahid has served some major blockbusters at the box-office, such as Kabir Singh, Jab We Met, Padmaavat, Haider, Udta Punjab, Vivah, Chup Chup Ke, Jersey and so many others. Recently, the actor clocked 20 years of his film journey, and to celebrate the same, he revealed some unheard anecdotes about some of his masterpiece films.
In a recent interview with Pinkvilla, Shahid Kapoor spoke about his film career of 20 years, and reminisced fond anecdotes from quite a few of his iconic movies. During the same, Shahid spoke about his classic film, Vivah where he starred as the male lead opposite Amrita Rao. The handsome actor recalled days of his shooting for the same and shared how he had to struggle a lot with the strict and pure Hindi words that were used in the script. Adding how he had confronted the filmmaker, Sooraj Barjatya for using the word, jal in place of paani or just water, Shahid mentioned:
“It was very different from my world. I had never used the word jal in my entire life, and I was like, but why is she saying jal? Why can’t she say paani or water? So, he was like nahin Shahid…jal. I said, ok Sooraj ji…jal... So, that’s the kind of journey it was.”
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Moving further in the conversation, Shahid elaborated on how he had to take a closer look into the life and manners of people, who belong to small cities and towns, to understand his character better in the film, Vivah. Calling it a first-hand experience for him, Shahid mentioned that in order to understand their mindset, he had to grow through the reality faced by those people. In his words:
“We don’t really understand people in smaller cities and smaller towns, their life, their mindset, so you have to go through that journey, and to connect with people you have to understand them. If you want to touch their heart, you’ve to be able to understand their feelings, their circumstances, and their reality. If you can’t understand that, you’ll never be able to connect with them and this was my first-hand experience.”
Concluding the interview, Shahid was asked if he found the character of ‘Prem’, that he portrayed in the film, was challenging for him to ace through. He explained that he didn’t find the role difficult since, in his real life, he did not face a similar situation, and so it was easy for him to explore the scope of the character. Shahid said:
“Picture was about arranged marriage, mera arranged marriage hua. If I wanted to do who I am, I wouldn’t be having this journey, and you would be having a different conversation with me. I never wanted to be just myself in the camera. The fact that it was something that I hadn’t experienced it was out of my kind of universe, to what I’ve been exposed to, is what fascinated and drew me to that subject.”
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In one of his earlier interactions with Film Companion, Shahid Kapoor recalled a peculiar anecdote from the sets of his film, Jab We Met. The actor mentioned how he fought with everyone in the sets for just being allowed to wear glasses for the character of ‘Aditya Kashyap’ in the film. He mentioned being discouraged by many, as they supposed that heroes of a film do not wear glasses. On the contrary, Shahid had to make everyone understand that for a character like ‘Aditya’ who contemplated suicide in the first scene of the film, the pair of glasses would work as an enhanced factor.
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